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Looking east on the 200 block of Burns Street the day after the Poet's Row fire
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Burns Street

Burns Street was in Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood, named for Robert Burns. Three blocks of row homes built in the 1890s, all destroyed in the catastrophic Poet's Row fire of August 1972.

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Riley Street

Ran south from Washington Street for one block.

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New Junction Hotel, 595 Bridge Avenue (aka 39 South 6th Street), photographed 1892
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Bridge Avenue

Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.

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Allen's Court

Allen's Court, sometimes referred to as Allen Court, ran south to north parallel to North 2nd Street. The court had six houses, originally numbered 102–112, and was gone by 1947.

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Judson Place, a quiet court off Stevens Street in South Camden, photographed September 15, 1932
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Judson Place

Judson Place ran for half a block north from 437 Stevens Street between West Street and South 5th Street in South Camden. Its two homes, at 439 and 441 Judson Place, were occupied as late as 1947 but have long since been razed.

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Boxer Running a Speakeasy - AI Photo
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Jimmy Rodgers is Given 180 Days

Former Boxer Jailed on Speakeasy Charge, Held on Stolen Goods Count James "Jimmy" Rodgers , 28-year-old former boxer who on numerous occasions has run afoul of the law, was sentenced yesterday to serve 180 days in the county jail for operating a speakeasy at 1000 Segal Street .

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Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1933 — 4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts
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4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts

Four youths, including Walter Urban of 109 Allen's Court, were arrested and five bicycles recovered in a ring of bicycle thefts broken by Camden police. Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1933.

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Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1933 — 4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts
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4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts

A ring of bicycle thieves is believed by police to have been broken last night with the arrest of four youths and recovery of five bicycles and parts of several others.

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Manager Is Shot in Second Holdup of Store in Week
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Manager Is Shot in Second Holdup of Store in Week

Store manager John Cullen was shot and near death after the second holdup of his American Store on Lansdowne Avenue in a week. Mounted Policeman Earl Wright arrested an armed suspect hours later at Third and Penn Streets.

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Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point newspaper clipping
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Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point

Joseph "Mose" Flannery, 26, Eighth ward political worker and slot machine distributor, lay dying in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital after being shot before dawn outside a saloon at Front street and Kaighn avenue. He refused to name his assailants — "My lips are sealed" — as Camden police and county detectives rounded up eight men and hunted for a motive.

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2 Boys Nabbed Here for Carrying Pistols — Camden Courier-Post, February 16, 1928
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2 Boys Nabbed Here for Carrying Pistols

Two boys were held by police and charged with carrying concealed .38 calibre revolvers after detectives found them loitering near the Sears-Roebuck Company on Bridge Entrance road.

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Voodoo Is Held for Murder, headline banner, Camden Courier, April 9, 1925
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'Voodoo' Is Held for Murder

Police held "Doctor" H. H. Hyghcock without bail after discovering a maze of tunnels, "witch caves," and gruesome remains beneath 413 and 415 Liberty Street; Police Judge Cleary first held him on lesser charges.

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